Jim carries a message to Silver, only to find that Black Dog is also in the same tavern! Just before the journey begins, the upright and serious Captain Smollett warns the Squire and Livesey that he does not trust the crew. They all know it is a treasure-seeking voyage, although this is meant to be a secret.
During most of the voyage, his fears seem unfounded and the crew seems to be happy and efficient. Jim sneaks ashore and hears in the distance one of the honest men being slain at the hands of the pirates. He also sees Silver murder a man who he was unable to convince to join his mutiny. Terrified that he will be next, Jim runs into the woods. Gunn reveals that Flint had buried the treasure on the island with the help of six men, whom he had then killed.
Gunn had returned to the island with a group of others three years before. Gunn, who is affable but slightly mad from his long solitude, has sought the treasure ever since.
He now offers to help Jim and his friends if they will give him a passage off the island. Jim returns with his news about Gunn and finds a battle has already depleted their numbers.
Surprisingly, Silver offers a truce but the Captain refuses. Another battle leaves more dead and the Captain wounded. He steers the boat to the Hispaniola , where he cuts the anchor cables. Hands promises he will help Jim sail the ship safely to shore if Jim will bind his wound and bring him some drink. Jim complies, but then sees he is not as badly wounded as he claims — and that he has a knife. Once they sail to shore, Hands attacks. Silver visits and attempts a negotiation with the captain, but the captain is wary and refuses to speak to him.
The pirates attack the stockade the next day, and the captain is wounded. By chance, the pirates do not spot Jim, and he floats around the island until he catches sight of the ship drifting wildly.
Struggling aboard, he discovers that one of the watchmen, Israel Hands, has killed the other watchman in a drunken fit. Jim takes control of the ship, but Israel turns against him. Jim is wounded but kills Israel.
Jim returns to the stockade but finds it occupied by the pirates. Silver takes Jim hostage, telling the boy that the captain has given the pirates the treasure map, provisions, and the use of the stockade in exchange for their lives.
Jim realizes, however, that Silver is having trouble managing his men, who accuse him of treachery. Silver proposes to Jim that they help each other survive by pretending Jim is a hostage.
However, the men present Silver with a black spot and inform him that he has been deposed as their commander. In a desperate attempt to gain control of his crew, Silver shows them the treasure map to appease them.
Silver leads Jim and the men to the treasure site, but they are shocked to find it already excavated and the treasure removed. The men are angered and near mutiny again. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Treasure Island , please sign up. Am I the only person who found reading this book difficult? I left it unfinished as it was hard for me to follow - and it shouldn't be the case as it is a short book!!
Mohammad Mansoor I read the book when I was probably 9, and I was gripped from the first page. And I didn't read it once, I read it over and over just for the sheer jo …more I read the book when I was probably 9, and I was gripped from the first page. And I didn't read it once, I read it over and over just for the sheer joy of it. I couldn't have a meal without reading this book at the same time. I think why I found it easier to read was because there were no instant dictionary lookups in paper books, and using the Oxford dictionary was too cumbersome This didn't break the flow of the story and that's the most important thing when you're reading fiction that flows as well as Treasure Island does.
Who has finished it in 1 day? Richa I have. It isn't that long. It is very gripping too. See all 31 questions about Treasure Island…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Treasure Island. Jan 17, Sean Barrs rated it liked it Shelves: classics , 3-star-reads , children-of-all-ages. Someone recently asked me what review I enjoyed writing the most, and, well, this is it: I have a massive problem with this book.
The problem resides with Kermit the Frog. Stay with me here! I grew up watching the muppets. I became slightly obsessed with them. I kind of wanted to join them. So, whenever I read about Captain Smollett and Long Someone recently asked me what review I enjoyed writing the most, and, well, this is it: I have a massive problem with this book.
Well, at least not completely. This book was much more serious. But, muppet based comparison aside, this is a good novel. I did quite enjoy it. As a member of the Victorian gentry, he takes the map for himself with the intention of filling his own coffers with the loot. In his frugality he accidently hires a group of twisted muppets pirates that, unsurprisingly, mutiny against him.
This all sounds terrible, I know. Indeed, Smollett is in direct contrast to the money driven Fozzie Trelawney because he is everything he is not; he is brave and honourable; he is completely true to his word. He is competing, unknowingly, for the attention of Jim.
The young boy is looking for a farther figure, and in Silver and Smollett he sees two potential role models, and two potential life choices. It all works out in the end though because this is a muppet movie adventure book after all. In all seriousness, it is an exciting book. There are no hidden motives or dark secrets.
Everything is straight forward, clean cut and simple. It is a nice easy read. Facebook Twitter Insta Academia View all 67 comments. Jan 02, Peter rated it it was amazing. My absolute favourite adventure story of them all. You have the Admiral Benbow, a little boy named Jim Hawkins, "Captain" Billy Bones, a cruffy old pirate, an incredible eerie pre-story black spot , a treasure hunt, the ghost of Flint Ben Gunn , the fight with Israel Hands and of course the one-legged villain Long John Silver.
So many fine characters and an absolutely compelling plot. I've watched all the movies and series about Treasure Island as a kid and still like that classic at my age. W My absolute favourite adventure story of them all.
What more can I say? Must read. This is one of the most famous adventure books you'll ever come across. View all 25 comments. He's the go-between the two fighting groups, the one who bargains with the villain Long John Silver mmm He's the center; a dreamer; while he loses his humility he attains a coming-of-age wisdom that peaks at the point where he brandishes a pistol for the first time.
There is very little inaction, but when it occurs such as the villain's cliched soliloquy or the factions grunting against their enemies it does decelerate the pace of the story. Thank you, Mr. View all 5 comments. Apr 11, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it it was amazing Shelves: 19th-century , fiction , scottish , classics , adventure , childrens-young-readers , british.
Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. He tells the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man.
After Black Dog is run off, a blind beggar named Pew visits to give Bones "the black spot" as a summons to share a map leading to buried treasure. Shortly thereafter, Bones suffers a stroke and dies. Pew and his accomplices attack the inn, but Jim and his mother save themselves while taking Bones's sea chest. Inside the chest, they find a map of an island on which the infamous pirate Captain Flint hid his treasure. Jim shows the map to the local physician Dr.
Livesey and the district squire John Trelawney, and they decide to make an expedition to the island, with Jim serving as a cabin boy. They set sail on Trelawney's schooner, the Hispaniola, under Captain Smollett.
Much of the crew, as it is later revealed, are pirates who served under Captain Flint, most notable of which is the ship's one-legged chef "Long John" Silver. Jim, sitting in an apple casket, overhears the conspirators' plan to mutiny after the salvage of the treasure and to assassinate the skippers. View all 6 comments. Well, then let's all sing it together: «Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! E allora cantiamo tutti insieme: «Quindici uomini sulla cassa del morto, yo-ho-ho, e una bottiglia di rum!
View all 9 comments. Arr, me matey! I've finally downed the children's classic, Treasure Island. Sadly, these pirates weren't nearly as sexy as I was expecting. Where were all the sweaty pirate abs I've come to expect from the plethora of trashy romance novels I've gobbled down over the years?
Not here, that's for damn sure. And mainly because of the overabundance of bodice rippers on my bookshelf, I felt like I maybe needed to expand my maritime horizons, and it seemed that going with a classic sailor story wouldn't b Arr, me matey! And mainly because of the overabundance of bodice rippers on my bookshelf, I felt like I maybe needed to expand my maritime horizons, and it seemed that going with a classic sailor story wouldn't be a bad way to accomplish that goal.
Unsurprisingly, this is a pretty boring book by today's standards. When I'm done churning this butter, should I whittle for a bit before we have a family sing-a-long around the fire? Going to be totally honest, I don't understand the yearning for a simpler lifestyle, as this scenario sounds like my own personal version of Hell. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and why you should read it. It's short! But what is Treasure Island about, Anne?
The gist is that our young hero, Jim Hawkins, has the shittiest luck ever. His dad dies and leaves a tweenage Jim and his mother with a ramshackle inn to run, complete with a scary drunken sailor Billy Bones that's not too keen on paying his tab as a tenant. He's what the kids these days call a scallywag.
Why does it matter that Bones is continually dodging rent? Well, after Billy Bob meets his maker with the help of a few of his old sailing pals, Jim and his mother have to rifle through his things to get payment. You and your neighbors would rent a ship, hire a sketchy crew, and set out for parts unknown full of high hopes that you'd be coming back with gold doubloons! The reality is that you'd be lucky to come back alive without scurvy or syphilis.
And dark thoughts like that are why I would have made a terrible pirate-adventurer The adults of course make some really bad decisions when it comes to securing an efficient crew. They have a competent captain, but instead of listening to him, they hire a fairly obvious villain as the cook and then proceed to take his advice over the captain's. This ensures they have quite a surly group of sailors to man the SS Mutiny.
Who is this cook? Long John Silver. When your cook's name is synonymous with chewy shrimp poppers and diarrhea, you might want to rethink your hiring process. Luckily for all the grown-ups, Jim is a brave and hearty lad who manages to save the day! Like, if you promised your kidnappers that you wouldn't try to run for it, then you couldn't try to run for it because that would make you a liar.
Which, for some unfathomable reason, was worth more than your life. And I suppose we're meant to think he's a better person for it, but all I could think was that maybe Stevenson based his story around a child with special needs.
Except, no. Because the doctor agreed with Jim, so apparently in the days of yore, the good guys couldn't just win , they had to win by a set of idiotic rules. Which is nuts! What are you teaching our kids, Robert!?
Looking someone dead in the eyes whilst giving a firm handshake and lying through your teeth is a fucking lifeskill that every child needs to have perfected by adulthood in order to survive.
But whatever. This is a fantasy, so it all works out for our heroes. They return home with their honor intact, a good bit of wealth, no STDs, and only a little bit of PTSD that kicks in whenever they hear a parrot squawk.
Read it. As far as classics go, you could do a lot worse than this one. Michael Prichard - Narrator View all comments. Apr 10, Alejandro rated it really liked it Shelves: historical-fiction , horror , espionage , military , novel. This is the iconic novel about pirates that it stands as the best example in this topic and easily one of the most adapted to other media novels in any genre.
I can remember having watched several adaptations, live action films, animated movies, even an animated film using animals as the characters, there is the Muppets' one, a Japanese anime TV series, an European mini-series taking the story to outer space starring Anthony Quinn, the animated remake of that version by Disney and the current Starz channel prequel TV series "Black Sails". Just to mention the ones that I have watched but there are a lot of more adaptations.
While the topic of pirates is a popular one, I think that there aren't much novels about it. At least not examples really worthy of reading them. Obviously there are some here and there, but taking in account how much options one has in other topics in literature, pirates has been a concept seldom touched with success.
However, this novel was able to keep on the mind of everybody the storytelling appeal of the topic of pirates inspiring successes on other media such as Japanese anime "Captain Harlock" and live actions films of "Pirates of the Caribbean". For all that and its own merit, Treasure Island keeps retaining the crown as the best novel about pirates. Its appealing is obvious depending the readers, many young ones can't resist to be amazed by Jim Hawkins who is 14 years old but he is able to keep up in the middle of adult characters and even being a key character in the success of the adventure.
To readers and writers of all ages, certainly the character of Long John Silver stands out as one of the best developed characters in the history of literature becoming a model to many following similar ones. He is able to do ruthless things but he has a code, he has limits, and not matter that he is not a nice person, there are things that he never will do and for that, he is a complicated and truly interesting character to read about.
Not matter how was on real life, Robert Louis Stevenson, the author, was able to show a romantic picture of pirates' world with now iconic elements like islands with treasures, maps with "x"'s, fearful papers with a black spot, peglegs, eye patches, parrots on shoulders, but above all, he had no doubt to show how dangerous and murderous can be real pirates.
View all 33 comments. Apr 21, Vit Babenco rated it it was amazing. Well, then, you get on a horse, and go to — well, yes, I will! He gave it me at Savannah, when he lay a-dying, like as if I was to now, you see.
The great adventure lies ahead… Goose bumps are guaranteed… Now I see a lot of irony in the tale and even a bit of mockery — a funny quirk with cheese belongs rather to a subtle ridicule than to the romantic treasure hunting… At the foot of a pretty big pine and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the ground.
I believe a chill struck for a moment to every heart. But what sort of a way is that for bones to lie? Just take a bearing, will you, along the line of them bones. Treasure Island is arguably one of the most influential tales in the world of fiction. Every pirate stereotype that we take for granted these days we can see the foundation somewhere in this magic tale. Approaching this story; I am quite lucky that I knew nothing about the plot except that there was a map where X marked the spot showcasing Captain Flint's legendary treasure.
I went into the task of reading this like a happy youth, wide-eyed looking forward to experiencing a legendary story for t Treasure Island is arguably one of the most influential tales in the world of fiction. I went into the task of reading this like a happy youth, wide-eyed looking forward to experiencing a legendary story for the first time without being hindered with prior knowledge of the narrative, the characters, the pace and the plot twists.
So the story goes something like this. An alcoholic ex-pirate Captain spends his days in a local bar drinking himself to death whilst singing jolly pirate songs.
He, unfortunately, passes away and leaves a chest which contains a secret map amongst other treasures. The map is highly sought after by all the wrong people. Our 1st person perspective young superstar Jim Hawkin's finds the map and speaks to his friends Dr.
Livesey and a squire, Mr. Trelawney and they decide to venture to this mystical treasure island to hunt for said treasure. Leaving from Bristol, they gather a ships worth of pirates and hands. Experienced in their own ways but none more so than pleasant, pub-owning ship's cook Long John Silver. So off they go on this adventure. They get the treasure and go home and live happily ever after. But, that obviously didn't happen because that would not make a legendary story. The main protagonist, Jim is a great character.
This is typically seen as a children's book although some of the sea and pirate terminology is quite specific and complex and having the first person perspective shown from the view of a young kid adds to the remarkableness of the story. The fact Jim is a young man who performs extraordinary deeds, often going against the odds on the Hispaniola the trusty vessel that takes them to treasure island or the island itself amongst hardened sea-faring men means we really have his back and support his deeds throughout the tale.
We feel close to him because of how well Stevenson writes this character. Every time the plot progresses, it is because of an amazing deed that Jim has done, often on his own back without the consultation of the most senior members of the group. We route for him every second of the way because he is us. Things don't work out smoothly when they get to the Island.
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